Profile avatar
alecmuffett.bsky.social
everybody deserves good security. https://alecmuffett.com/about
1,972 posts 4,412 followers 907 following
Regular Contributor
Active Commenter
Posts 16 Comments 34

“My experience with Canonical’s interview process” | …this is an atrocious story https://alecmuffett.com/article/113440 #interviewing #tech

submitted 17 hours ago • 0 comments

What the hell is “Bitcoin-Style Encryption”? https://alecmuffett.com/article/113438 #ElonMusk #EndToEndEncryption

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

TechCrunch UK & EU appears to be gone https://alecmuffett.com/article/113435 #journalism #techcrunch

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Thought for the Day: the anthropomorphic personification of death for soap bubbles is a 3-year-old child https://alecmuffett.com/article/113433 #death #pratchett

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

Let’s all take a moment to consider that if — as demanded by Ofcom — encrypted messenger systems WERE actually monitoring conversations for words like: drone, bomb, explosive… all reports would curre[…] https://alecmuffett.com/article/113431

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

I don’t have official confirmation, but I’m unilaterally declaring dibs on inspiration for this WhatsApp advertising campaign… https://alecmuffett.com/article/113418 #ChildSafety #ClientSideScanning #EndToEndEncryption #OnlineSafety #privacy #whatsapp

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

BBC demonstrates smuggled North Korean phone and how it implements both censorship and accountability in the user interface… https://alecmuffett.com/article/113416 #NorthKorea #OnlineSafety #censorship #totalitarianism

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

“OpenAI, defender of user privacy” – not what you would typically expect to hear from civil society, but in this case it’s true… https://alecmuffett.com/article/113410 #EndToEndEncryption #NewYorkTimes #deletion #openai #privacy

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

The Laws: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_fla...

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

Remembering John Young, co-founder of web archive Cryptome | The Register https://alecmuffett.com/article/113406 #JohnYoung

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

While in the LOTR movies Denethor just randomly went crazy, that's not the whole story. Denethor became a doomer. He spent all night scrolling through bad news on his magic device, because the Dark Lord only let him see bad news and not good, until he lost all hope and it broke him.

submitted 10 days ago • 23 comments

I think that one of the reasons that I’m not worried about AGI is that I’m still waiting for the end of the world to be caused by Quantum Computing https://alecmuffett.com/article/113401 #ItsTheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowItAndIFeelFine #QuantumComputing #ai2027

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

By Default, Signal Doesn’t Recall | Signal Windows app leverages DRM content protection hacks to hide messages from Windows Recall https://alecmuffett.com/article/113398 #EndToEndEncryption #signal #windows

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

Reminder: Civil Society in the UK and USA typically demands a 24-hour turnaround for decisions on content-takedown or user-takedown requests. Some of them demand fines upon platforms which fail to decide such simple matters in such a time window.

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

Welcome to Britain, where it takes Nigella Lawson to explain to people that you can kill people with meat cleavers just about as easily as pointy knives https://alecmuffett.com/article/113392 #KnifeCrime #MoralPanic #nigella

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

NYU psychology professor taken to task for hawking dubious paper about children, screen time and harms https://alecmuffett.com/article/113388 #JonathanHaidt #MoralPanic #OnlineHarms #ScreenTime

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment